COMPANY NEWS

Building Up

If Coates Hire is a bellwether for the construction-related economy, then things are looking up. Coates Hire is expanding and refreshing its equipment fleet, a sure sign that Australian governments and corporations are continuing to invest in infrastructure.

Dylan Camarsh, Group Manager of Fleet Performance – Deployment at Coates Hire, says the upsurge in infrastructure spending on the East Coast of Australia (including Victoria) has triggered increased demand for the company’s equipment.

“We’re currently at historically-high stock-holding levels in equipment such as road traffic barriers, due to the number and size of highway projects.” He says the company has invested in tens of kilometres of the BG800 road safety barriers that are increasingly being specified by highway engineers, as in the company’s work on a major highway project in Queensland’s Eton Range. Coates Hire has also purchased 200 new variable message boards, 75 solar-powered temporary traffic lights and nine truck-mounted attenuators – the trucks with swinging safety barriers on the back.

Large-scale construction and industrial maintenance shutdown projects, have also seen the company refreshing its industrial tools and equipment fleet. To support many of these large shutdowns the company provides a manned tool store running 24 hours a day with multiple employees who manage the large volumes of equipment involved.

“We’re known as the only company that can support these large shutdowns, meaning we need the equipment fleet to facilitate these big jobs.

“Coates Hire responds to construction and infrastructure demand Australia-wide,” says Camarsh. “We stay close to the industry and our customers to accurately forecast and service their needs.”